Asterisk and X [was: Re: [Asterisk-Users] zaptel PRI drivers]

[Eric Wieling]

Tom wrote:

> This is what I have suspected all along is that the signaling and timing
> constraints on the PRI are such that you basically need asterisk running as a
> real-time process.  The whole point of the thread (in my mind) is if there is
> anyway to cause X to not run as such a real-time process so as to allow
> asterisk the proper access to the hardware that it needs?  and why can I run X
> (as in Xvnc which starts x servers) without any problem? but not a real x
> server?

Graphics drivers and graphics cards lock interrupts for a VERY long 
time.  Some RAID cards and/or drivers do this too.  Locking interrupts 
for a long time will mess up Asterisk no matter WHAT you do.

--Eric

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